From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ryon@dslnorthwest.net   
   Subject: Re: Those Amazing Computers!   
      
   > Oh, definitely. aIf they'd left the midshipman scene in place Kirk would   
   > have had to be pushing 40 to have been on Tarsus 20 years earlier. aOf   
   > course, at the time they hadn't specified Kirk's age at all, other than   
   > on the tombstone in WNMHGB, so the plot hole wouldn't have materialized   
   > until the next season when they old us he was 34.   
   >   
   > Bruce Hyde was 26 when he played Riley. aStretching things a bit, the   
   > character could have been a couple of years older, but at most Riley was   
   > seven or eight during the Tarsus disaster. aOf course, that's the sort   
   > of experience that tends to burn intself into one's memory pretty deep.   
   > a I imagine that little kid that Saddam Hussein was hugging on TV before   
   > the first Gulf war can probably still remember how many gaps there were   
   > in the guy's teeth.   
   >   
   > GeneK   
   The Deadly Years had Kirk shouting he was thirty-four. Ignoring time   
   warps, Einstinian time dilation, and other freak surprises, that would   
   make Jim thirteeen or fourteen when on Tarsus IV. In the book,   
   Avenger, it's Sarek who saves young Jimmy Kirk from Kodos, thinking   
   how he is so much alike his sixteen year-old son, putting Kirk to be   
   fourteen. And Riley to be *very* young... Not worth killing (except   
   for his singing).  ;-)   
   Ron   
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